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25 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco Popular |
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| Year | 1882 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | EL BANCO POPULAR SERIE D No. 0235 Pagará al portador a la vista VEINTE Y CINCO PESOS EN MONEDA CORRIENTE Bogotá a 1 de Enero de 1882 GERENTE PRESIDENTE DEL CONSEJO 25 |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in brown on plain paper, dominated by a central rectangular guilloche panel bearing the numeral 25 in large format at left and right. A stamped overprint in red is visible at centre. The upper portion carries a multi-line text block declaring provisional circulation as a Banco Nacional note per government decree, dated Bogotá, Octubre 30 de 1899, with handwritten signatures of the Ministro del Tesoro and members of the Junta de Emisión below. |
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Banco Popular was one of several private commercial banks licensed under Colombia's 1871 banking law, which allowed state-chartered institutions to issue their own currency — a system that persisted until the Banco de la República absorbed those privileges in 1923. The 1882 date places this note squarely in the middle of that free-banking period, before the catastrophic 1885 civil war and the subsequent monetary chaos that rendered much private bank paper worthless or unredeemable.
Domestic printing in Colombia during this period was technically limited, and notes of this type frequently show uneven ink distribution as a result. The S-prefix in the Pick reference reflects its private bank classification.